408 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
Up to May 20, quite a few still retained winter plumage, but none 
in this plumage were seen after May 25. 
On the north coast of Alaska these birds nest equally in hollow drift- 
wood logs on the beach or in ruined igloos, and in dark sheltered 
pockets under the overhanging sod of the cutbanks near the shore. 
Two conditions they seem to require, a dark sheltered nook for the 
nest and the site must be close to the shore of a bay or the ocean. 
No eggs were found until June 28. This proved to be a set of seven, 
the largest I have seen and incubation was well started. This nest 
was in a hollow log on a sand spit and was composed largely of white 
fox hair with a lining of white ptarmigan feathers. On tearing the 
log to pieces to reach this nest I found a last year’s one also composed 
of the same material. The female that I disturbed from the nest, was 
like other Snow Buntings very fearless and loath to leave her eggs 
uncovered, for she would return to them when I was beside the log. 
On July 3 two sets of five eggs were found, one about to hatch and 
the other perhaps one third incubated. Both nests were in pockets 
under overhanging sod on the bank by the beach and were well made 
of fine grass lined with caribou hairs, presumably taken from a near by 
abandoned Eskimo camp site. 
Four eggs too advanced to save were found in a driftwood log on 
July 8, and on July 14 a nest was found containing young about ten 
days old. 
Mr. Dixon took young birds at Humphrey Point, July 12, 1914, and 
at Herschel Island, July 30. 
PLECTROPHENAX NIVALIS TOWNSENDI Ridgway. 
PRIBILOF SNOW BUNTING. 
We did not see any Pribilof Snow Buntings, and have only a pur- 
chased specimen, a male taken at Copper Island, on June 5, —. 
CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS ALASCENSIS Ridgway. 
ALASKA LONGSPUR. 
Were it not for this gentle, sweet-singing little bird the tremendous 
wastes of Arctic tundra would be far more desolate than now. ‘Tramp- 
ing day after day over the soft mosses where everything looks alike 
and one never seems to get anywhere, the other sounds that are most 
